Recent reports from market research firms have revealed that Waterloo, Ontario based Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion, Ltd. (TSE:RIM) is losing customers not only on a percentage basis, but also on a per unit basis in the U.S. Adding to the company's woes, it recently experienced a major international outage that left BlackBerry users without email or messaging service.

But the company had some good news to announce, this week airing "BBX", its next generation BlackBerry operating system, at its DevCon keynote address. The new operating system supports both native and web apps.

On the web app side, there's built in support for Android Java applications, much like the RIM Playbook. This is critical as it gives new BlackBerries access to literally hundreds of thousands of new apps. HTML5 web apps are also fully supported.

On the native apps side, there's a new Native SDK. There's a new GUI SDK -- Cascade UI with support for 3D animations and more. RIM is offering support for 100 commonly used open source libraries, including the popular multithreading library POSIX. And for native apps RIM is also adding new deep integration to the company's push and BlackBerry Mail (BBM) services.

RIM President and Co-CEO.Mike Lazaridis was on hand to announce BBX [Source: RIM]

The new operating system will be available on new BlackBerries and will be available as an OS upgrade for the PlayBook and future tablets. An early build is available via the "BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Developer Beta."

The base code of the operating system comes from QNX, the OS currently used in the RIM PlayBook, but borrows literally from RIM's own BlackBerry OS. QNX was first released in 1982 by a fellow Waterloo firm, and was purchased in 2004 by Harman International Industries (HAR). Then in 2010 RIM scooped up the OS-maker, reaching an agreement to buy it from Harman.

The new OS will be installed on both RIM's tablets and its BlackBerry smartphones.
[Source: Berry Review]

Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at RIM, cheered the fruit of that acquisition, stating, "With nearly 5 million BlackBerry apps downloaded daily, our customers have made BlackBerry one of the most profitable platforms for developers. At DevCon today, we're giving developers the tools they need to build richer applications and we're providing direction on how to best develop their smartphone and tablet apps as the BlackBerry and QNX platforms converge into our next generation BBX platform."

Some employees and investors have recently expressed skepticism [1][2] about the leadership at RIM. Nonetheless, with increasingly attractive hardware, and a reinvigorated OS effort, RIM just may have what it takes to pull off a turnaround.

"Yet, RIM's management remains in "blatant denial," said Bernstein's Ferragu, who believes the company's outlook for the third quarter and the full year appears "unrealistic.""

"RIM’s net income plummeted by 60%, margins were squeezed, average selling prices of BlackBerry smartphones dropped and RIM managed to burn through more than half of its cash in a single quarter. Concerns are mounting, analysts are barking and RIM’s stock fell off a cliff in after-hours trading. Tossing yet another concern onto the pile, RIM’s global smartphone market share likely dipped into the single digits last quarter. Read on for more."

Yeah, first you show me the graph where market share grows in some regions and then next thing you show me the graph where shipments decline. How come they decline if in Europe and other regions the market share grew past 18 months according to your other graph?

Besides, market analysts also spell doom and gloom for Apple these days because Apple "underperformed". Yeah very strong argument those analysts who bash Apple and everyone else. This is their job to bash, they get paid for that, so no need to sell me all this stuff. I wanna see next quarter report and compare, see if BB7 changed anything from negative trends to positive ones, then I'll have the answer to whether RIM is really in permanent decline or it was just a dip caused by the BB7 delay for 6 months or so.

"Yeah, first you show me the graph where market share grows in some regions and then next thing you show me the graph where shipments decline. How come they decline if in Europe and other regions the market share grew past 18 months according to your other graph?"

OMG, why do you keep trying? RIM just announced its Q2 results a few days ago. Are you that dense not to look at the dates? This is the latest data that didn't exist on the previous graph. This is the trend I was TELLING YOU WOULD HAPPEN and you couldnt accept it. It's RIM's data, not alalysts. Some of it is analysts take on RIM's data, but hte data is from RIM, the data showing worldwide decline came from RIM. This is the "there won’t be any way for RIM to hide behind creative data reporting and "pick and choose" facts." part coming to fruition you daft idiot.

pwned again... Or are you going to keep trying? Your just making yourself look foolish at this point. =)

Oh, so the growing marketshare trend was even without BB7? This is excellent news, come think of it. I wanna see next quarter report that includes BB7 sales to confirm my hypothesis that BB7 will pull RIM out of the pit.

Yeah I'm not into chest thumping bets like you, I prefer to pwn trolls. This is different business you know. I have no idea if QNX will save RIM, I just find it childish to bury any business alive and kicking. Until the company goes bankrupt there's always chance for coming back. This is true not for RIM only, this is about any business out there.

I've seen soooo manyyy people burying Apple alive in my days, soo many of them, that your burying of RIM just looks stupid now. After Apple was "buried" same people started to bury MS, now it's RIM's turn, after RIM they will bury Nintendo, after Nintendo they will bury Sony or someone else, doesn't matter. Burying trolls never stop burying, they can't live without it.

stale data from last year, I'm more interested in the next quarter report which includes BB7, this will reveal true RIM potential without your constant trolling about how ancient BB6 and BB5 phones suck

While you're regurgitating old "news" here about RIM staff cuts a few months ago people have converted a whole ton of useful android apps like skype into PlayBook bar files, all tested and ready to go to the masses once the OS 2.0 beta turns into the release.

This quick almost exponential overnight growth of PlayBook apps catalog will be ignored by trolls like you and JM. You'd much rather share here bad news from a few months ago instead of a good news from yesterday. This tells everything about who you really are. I can see through you troll!

"I'm more interested in the next quarter report which includes BB7, this will reveal true RIM potential without your constant trolling "

Says the troll from underneath his bridge. I have fed you enough for now. You have been sufficiently owned on this subject. I will own you again on the next thread unless of course you want to take that bet, in which case I will own you next october.

The bet: By October next year, there won’t be any way for RIM to hide behind creative data reporting and "pick and choose" facts. RIM’s numbers will be down all over , sales, marketshare, everything, everywhere and it will be undeniable.

You can't own me until good RIM news stop flowing in. I'll repost these news here every time I see anti-RIM trolling, just to keep this forum more objective and balanced. You can keep reposting old regurgitated "news" from a year ago, while I'll be posting new fresh stuff. This is more interesting to me.

The app store doesn't mean a whole lot without sales. show me sales. Now lets see here look at the title of your thread. I posted links Showing that you are uninformed... It's not news from a year ago its news from rims latest quarterly reports. I just wanted to clarify that so that we are clear on exactly what you are in denial about. You have been owned and you know it you just wont admit it and are too cowardly to stand behind it troll boy

No, you are pick and choosing facts like you always do. 3 of the 4 links were this month based on RIM's latest quarterly results. Once again you have outed yourself as a lying sack, and a number fudging troll . You are used to people just letting you off the hook, but I am tired of that. I am holding you up to your BS. You have been totally owned. The links below show that RIM is in fact losing worldwide marketshare, and that you pick and choose facts to suit your agenda. You aren't getting off the hook here troll boy. ou ignore many facts you dont want to hear and exaggerate the few that support your agenda. Then you twist peoples words around and continue to argue against things they never said or even implied. Then you change the subject and have arguments that are totally unrelated and insult them for disagreeing with you and/or your style. You and I both know it, as does anyone that had the misfortune of reading our recent volleys. On top of all that, you slither out of the opportunity to stand behind what you say and bet on RIM's future prospects.

The links show that in fact some analyst somewhere said "we believe this trend is starting to spread to international markets" - yeah ok they believe that, I believe this and not that, so what? Why should I believe some shady analyst when I can make conclusions based on my own rationale? If you're telling me I have problems because my BELIEFS are different from that analyst BELIEFS well you'll need some councelling then.

I judge RIM not by beliefs but by facts. You showing me links where some analyst "believes" something he chooses to believe does not change anything. Why are you even regurgitating some analyst beliefs again and again? I told you I need facts and not analyst beliefs.

Hello... Read the articles. Its not based on beliefs... What the analysts think will happen next is based on beliefs. The #'s were released by RIM, as all companies do each quarter. The #'s show worldwide declines. At some point you are going to have to admit it.

Well, I've seen the numbers from RIM this summer and this fall that say this:1) Revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2012 grew 16% over the same quarter last year2) International revenue in Q1 grew 67% year over year3) The BlackBerry subscriber base grew 40% year over year to surpass 70 millionSo let me judge RIM by these numbers in addition to your persistent trolling, okay? Just to stay more objective and unbiased. You don't mind, do you?

Yoiu are the last person that should be calling anyone childish based on the way you post here at AT/DT for years now. You act like a spoled brat that cant accept others opinions. And call you out? I did...

/paste - What I have sucessefully done here in the past few weeks is exposed you for what you are. An agenda driven troll... and an angry little one at that. You ignore many facts you dont want to hear and exaggerate the few that support your agenda. Then you twist peoples words around and continue to argue against things they never said or even implied. Then you change the subject and have arguments that are totally unrelated and insult them for disagreeing with you and/or your style. You and I both know it, as does anyone that had the misfortune of reading our recent volleys. On top of all that, you slither out of the opportunity to stand behind what you say and bet on RIM's future prospects.